Church Music

There are a couple more to look at from 2003’s emmanuelworship‘s album Ride of a Lifetime.

This is an uptempo song of praise from Liz Buchanan.

I’m working through the emmanuelworship collection from 2003 called Ride of a Lifetime.

This is an unusual song by James Garrahy that dares to be poetic and grand. It is a solo piece that sounds like a show tune really.

I had fun with the backing:

By way of rebuttal from another show tune:

This is also surprisingly not noisy for emmanuelworship. It was intended for children but is in the form of a psalm of praise, so is not only for them. It was written by James Garrahy.

I am looking at Ride of a Lifetime, a 2003 album by emmanuelworship. This is the ballad of the album and was written by Liz Buchanan. While I can’t see a liturgical use, it is heart felt sung prayer and reflection. The verse is very much a solo vehicle, but a crowd could sing the refrain.

You could learn it by singing along to my BIAB backing. I let BIAB fashion a fiddle solo because it isn’t much good at flute solos.

This is Patrick Keady’s quiet song from the collection, Ride of a Lifetime, emmanuelworship‘s 2003 album.

It is sung prayer with some reportage thrown in – a song for reflection and I suspect an opportunity to catch your breath after all the jumping up and down to the other songs. It is also in a reasonable range and singable despite the obligatory syncopation. There is a lot of variation between the two verses to match the text. It is long out of print so I have posted the sheet music.

The instructions suggest “slow down at the end and go off in the Spirit”. I couldn’t find a Band in a Box setting for that.

This is another Patrick Keady song from emmanuelworship‘s 2003 album Ride of Lifetime. This one would work as recessional for a youth orientated mass. It is inspired by Ezekiel 37:7,10. I am finding a lot of fine work in these old (!) folios, that are worth another look and adapting to current needs.

A lot of us would sing this one an octave down and it could certainly be less guitar driven. The “1~2~3~Hey!” is, I’m sure, optional, as I don’t see that in the OT text. I posted the sheet music as emmanuelworship have indicated that were OK with that for collections that are out of print.

My backing is somewhat more sedate than theirs.

Brisbane’s emmanuelworship have always been at the praise and worship end of Australian catholic music and Ride of a Lifetime from 2003 saw them at peak rowdy. This song by Andrew Lowden is testimony set to power chords. The collection is long out of print, hence posting the sheet music.

This is a James Garrahy song from Ride of a Lifetime, emmanuelworship‘s 2003 album.

Again, I doubt it is a liturgical song, but it is a little more reflective than some of the others here and works as sung prayer. It is pitched high enough already without the key change into the last verse!

I have posted the sheet music as it is out of print.

Patrick Keady used Psalm 139 as inspiration for this fine song from 2003’s emmanuelworship‘s album Ride of a Lifetime.

This one could be done profitably with less noise as a solo vehicle. The range and syncopation are too much for an assembly, but it’s home would be in youth rallies in any case. I am putting up the sheet music as the collection is long out of print.

I am looking at emmanuelworship‘s Ride of a Lifetime collection from 2003. This is an out and out praise and worship song by James Garrahy with help from Liz Buchanan and Patrick Keady. The syncopation is dialed to the max, but it is singable in a conversational sort of way. I’ve posted the sheet music as it out of print.

I used a piano melody line for a change to highlight all the syncopated notes. There is the usual build in intensity with many repetitions.